What is the meaning of the word Milquetoast?

Answer 1

as quoted from www.m-w.com "a timid, meek, or unassertive person"
Also quoted from www.worldwidewords.org "It’s an eponym, named after a fictional cartoon character named Caspar Milquetoast, invented by the American illustrator Harold T Webster in 1924. The strip was called The Timid Soul and appeared every Sunday in the New York Herald Tribune up to his death in 1953. Mr Webster said that his character was “the man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick”.

The name is just a Frenchified respelling of the old American English term milk toast, an uninspiring, bland dish which was created from slices of buttered toast laid in a dish of milk, usually considered to be food for invalids. There’s an even older foodstuff, milksop, which was untoasted bread soaked in milk, likewise something suitable only for infants or the sick. From the thirteenth century on, milksop was a dismissive term for “an effeminate spiritless man or youth; one wanting in courage or manliness”, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it. Mr Milquetoast is in the same tradition."

Answer 2

Ah, milktoast, I remember it well! It's what my mother would feed me when I had a cold or a fever when I was very young. It was mild light toast drenched in milk,with cinnamon and sugar. It tasted alright, it was soft and sloppy but easy ro eat and keep down. It's soft and mild and fit for a wussy (or a sickly kid), like the character, Mr Milquetoast, so meek and gentle.

Answer 3

It means "your a pus*sy"...no backbone or personallity; meek.

Answer 4

a timid, shrinking, apologetic person.